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200,000 . . . or 20,000? Obama's Crowd in Berlin
World Politics Review ^ | 25 Jul 2008 | John Rosenthal

Posted on 07/25/2008 9:56:22 AM PDT by Daffynition

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Even when he blows his Pinocchio nose he can get 200K to applaud.
1 posted on 07/25/2008 9:56:22 AM PDT by Daffynition
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To: Daffynition

Isn’t it really a question of whether they were there for “the one” or for a rock concert that apparently took place at the same time.


2 posted on 07/25/2008 10:00:38 AM PDT by Schnucki
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To: Daffynition

Another miracle!

Obama turned 20,000 fans into 200,000 fans! And there were enough leftovers to fill twelve baskets!


3 posted on 07/25/2008 10:03:45 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: agere_contra

LOL!!!!!


4 posted on 07/25/2008 10:05:30 AM PDT by FlashBack (www.proudpatriots.org/www.woundedwarriorproject.org/www.moveamericaforward.org)
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To: Daffynition

Either way, the difference is just a bunch of zeros- ie, people who have zero votes in the US.


5 posted on 07/25/2008 10:06:49 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: agere_contra

But all the kegs were empty ...


6 posted on 07/25/2008 10:07:27 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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And there were enough leftovers to fill twelve baskets!

..and 20,000 basket cases.

7 posted on 07/25/2008 10:07:32 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: Daffynition

Regardless of the actual number the crowd was there for a 2-band free benefit rock concert. Obama was a added to the line up of special celebrity speakers. If you watched the news last night, you would have thought 200,000 adoring fans show up to touch the robes of the Messiah


8 posted on 07/25/2008 10:07:40 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: Daffynition

He just lies.


9 posted on 07/25/2008 10:08:06 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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oh, shut up already! don't you see, dah man had a humility to keep it under a million...
10 posted on 07/25/2008 10:08:06 AM PDT by alecqss
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To: mnehrling

Is that 200,000 in English, or metric units?


11 posted on 07/25/2008 10:09:30 AM PDT by smokinleroy (How come gas prices spiked only AFTER the democrats won Congress?)
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To: Daffynition

20,000 people with 19,000 of them part of the US media.


12 posted on 07/25/2008 10:11:22 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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Regardless of the actual number the crowd was there for a 2-band free benefit rock concert. Obama was a added to the line up of special celebrity speakers. If you watched the news last night, you would have thought 200,000 adoring fans show up to touch the robes of the Messiah

Obviously that type of information is not important enough to get reported.

13 posted on 07/25/2008 10:12:51 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: agere_contra
And there were enough leftovers to fill twelve baskets!

Twelve... uh, ONE HUNDRED TWENTY baskets! There were One Hundred Twenty baskets of scraps! Just ask Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric. That is if they will get up off their bloody and scarred knees long enough to drop the Chapstick and actually consider returning to reality.

14 posted on 07/25/2008 10:12:58 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Schnucki

I hope the MSN are feeling like a bunch of useful idiots about now. I think this is whole EU campaign trip is going to have a big backlash.


15 posted on 07/25/2008 10:14:04 AM PDT by Daffynition
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I think what Obama is going to find out is that this trip came at a time to do him no good, and potentially only harm. Only political junkies are paying attention, and anyone who catches things here and there are just as likely to get a bad impression than a good one over this stuff.

I just hope McCain realizes the “ground game” is his key this time around.


16 posted on 07/25/2008 10:17:14 AM PDT by Crimson Elephant
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To: agere_contra
Fantastic post agere_contra!

When he He returns to the USA He'll be walking across the Atlantic .. just you wait and see. ;)


17 posted on 07/25/2008 10:18:42 AM PDT by Daffynition
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To: Daffynition

200?

That would just be his media supporters and his “peeps”.


18 posted on 07/25/2008 10:19:15 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Daffynition

I was wondering actually about the applause. If there were 200,000 people present in front of Obama, the sound from the applause should have been blaring, it should have covered all other surrounding noises even Obama’s voice. The applause in the sound bites do not sound resonating, it sounds like a couple of thousand people actually.

Any thoughts?


19 posted on 07/25/2008 10:19:49 AM PDT by GauchoUSA
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You’d think the Germans would have a better sense of history that letting Obama hold a rally like one of Hitler’s! This foreign campaigning is disgusting!


20 posted on 07/25/2008 10:25:51 AM PDT by Justice4Reds
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